what does "Otherpart" do?

[dense trail]

Im new to lua and coding in general, and the parameter "otherpart" is confusing me. What does it do exactly? I found it off of a yt tutorial.

[wintry wharf]

i got you

print(otherPart)

so if we print otherPart

otherPart is ANYTHING that touches the part

meaning parts like SpawnLocation

and your body parts on your character

if we peek inside of a player thats loaded into the game

you can see all their body parts and something called "Humanoid"

local humanoid = otherPart.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

thats where this comes in

so visualise it like this

LeftLowerLeg.Parent which is our model with your player name

thats why it prints my name

print(otherPart.Parent)

[icy axle]

** You are now Level 16! **

[wintry wharf]

your character FINDTHEFIRSTTHINGCALLED ("Humanoid")

[dense trail]

oh wait so otherpart gets the first child of "Humanoid"?

i mean that little code segment

[wintry wharf]

otherpart is say your leg that touched the part
otherpart.Parent is your character

as your character is the parent of the leg

Gabeisvibing is my username ofc

everything inside is a child to it as its inside it

so all that code means is look inside Gabeisvibing for something called "Humanoid"

[dense trail]

oh ok

wait

another quick question

im making a quick little obby game to test my skills ya know

and i have this yellow ball thats a coin

when i touch the coin it doesn't make my leaderstat go up

[wintry wharf]

you named it coins not coin

i have made that mistake plenty of times too loll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evBhoqeYegQ

if you want to make a player data saving system without needing to know to much just yet
i always recommend this as it helped me a ton

leaderstats is cool but not safe as youd have to save it on the client

[dense trail]

changing it to coins doesn't fix it either

wait out of curiosity

when doing the leaderstats thing you have a setINT for integer

i dont actually need a decimal but what if you wanted a decimal?

[wintry wharf]

no IntValue cant do floats

NumberValue

local num = Instance.new("NumberValue")
num.Value = 3.5

[dense trail]

oh ok

ok wait

should i make a seperate script for adding 1 to the player stats every time the player touches a coin? and if so where would that script go?

[wintry wharf]

i think you need to do
coins.Value += 1

which just means
coins.Value = coins.Value + 1

set whatever it is + 1

coinPart.Touched:Connect(function(otherpart)
    local humanoid = otherpart.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
    if humanoid then
        local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(otherpart.Parent)
        if player then
            local coins = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats") and player.leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Coins")
            if coins then
                coinPart.Transparency = 0.7
                coins.Value += 1
            end
        end
    end
end)

another issue your having is it wont know what "coins" is

in your playeradded function you define what coins is so it knows

artist fr

the red part is outside of any function so its a global scope

meaning if you tried to reference something in global inside a functon no problem

anything in the green is in a function which is a local scope meaning only that function can see it

local coins = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats") and player.leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Coins")
if coins then
    coinPart.Transparency = 0.7
    coins.Value += 1

so we tell it in your Touched function what coins is

its the folder inside of a specific player

then you can update their coins

[wintry wharf]

so to answer no you dont but usually its good practice too

in a fully fledged game you might have a modulescript or normal script that has a function for that

then another modulescript or script specifically about creating and updating playerstats or playerdata

[wintry wharf]

this is how you truly dip your toes into proper data storing if you want to make an actual game
if your just messing around to learn your doing perfect

[dense trail]

ok ty for the help man your a lifesaver

also another quick (probably) question

is there an easy way to remove a part from the game once something has happened

[dense trail]

nvm figured it out

again, thanks for the help

[wintry wharf]

guessing you found out about part:Destroy() lol